Free Methodist Church (Historical)
Free Methodist Church (Historical) is a Methodist church in Kent, OH 44240. It is one of 37 churches in Kent, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Kent, OH, 44240Free Methodist Church (Historical) is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,576 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Free Methodist Church (Historical)
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Poverty Rate: 26.4% (16.6–36.1%)
- Depression: 27.0%
- Food Insecurity: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.2–11.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Kent city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 2,093 residents.
Churches near Free Methodist Church (Historical)
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Spiritualist Church of Kent — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Water Street Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kent Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
- H2O Church — 0.8 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Kent United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Lake Brady United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Tallmadge United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Tallmadge, OH
- Twin Falls United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Munroe Falls, OH
- United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away in Stow, OH